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Cookies policy

Information about cookiesIn accordance with the provisions of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society, under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, in general terms the LSSI does not apply in the field of Public Administrations, since they do not have the nature of information society service providers defined in its annex. Only the LSSI will be applicable if the activity of the Administration has an economic nature.

Notwithstanding the aforementioned, information is provided regarding cookies installation on the user's equipment:

What is a cookie and what are they used for?

Cookies are small text files that websites can place on the device (PC, Smartphone, Tablet, Smart TV etc.) used to access the website, or in the browser used by the user. This file contains information about the pages that have been visited in that website, which allows remembering the navigation preferences so that the next time someone visits the website, navigation will be more agile, using the information contained in the file. Also through cookies, anonymous statistical information can be gathered, or ensure that the web pages work correctly.

Types of Cookies

Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be classified as session and permanent cookies. On the first ones, their validity expires when the user closes the browser, while the validity of the permanent Cookies can be variable, once they have fulfilled the objective that motivated their installation or when the user proceeds to manual deletion.

Attending to their manager, cookies can be from the own website, in this case of the Calvià Town Hall; or of third parties, in general terms, entities that process the data obtained through cookies.

In accordance with their purpose, it is possible to distinguish between:

-Technical cookies: they allow the user to navigate in a website or application, and the use of different options or services that exist in it. This group includes, for example, session identification, or sharing content through social media.

-Personalisation cookies: they allow the user to access the service with certain predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user equipment, such as language or geographical location.

-Analysis cookies: they allow the person in charge of them to monitor and analyse website user's behaviour to which they are linked, in order to introduce improvements based on the data analysis used by the service users.

-Advertising cookies: they allow the management of advertising spaces that the owner of the page or application has included to show adverts.

-Behavioural advertising cookies: they allow the management of advertising spaces through user's behaviour information storage obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits.

Cookies used in Calvià Town Hall's website:

This website of the Calvià Town Hall uses the Google Analytics service (Analysis Cookies).

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States ("Google"). It uses cookies associated with the domain that generates them, whose function is limited to the collection of statistical information about users' browsing anonymously, for example the time of the visit, if the user has been at the website before, and from where he or she has linked to the website. Google Analytics does not provide the Calvià Town Hall with information about the user's IP address, but the Town Hall will only know from what point of the planet someone is visiting its website.

The conditions of the Google Analytics service, which all customers must comply with, prohibit tracking or data obtaining such as the name or email address through the use of the tool, as well as the association of personal information with Web Analytics data. For more information, you can visit the following link: http://www.google.es/intl/es/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

The information generated by the cookie about your website's use will be transmitted and filed by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on behalf of the Town Hall in order to track the website's use, compiling reports on the site's activity and providing other services related to the site's activity and the use of the Internet. Google may transmit this information to third parties when required by law, or when such third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Google Analytics CookiesCOOKIE DURATION PURPOSE_utma 2 years It generates a unique ID user and it records the date, the first and the last time the user visited the website._utmb 30 min. It registers the arrival time at the website, and is automatically deleted when changing web or closing the browser._utmc Session It determines whether more than 30 minutes have elapsed on the same website or not to establish a new session for the user._utmv Session It allows demographic data segmentation from the registration data obtained._utmz 6 months It stores the visitor's origin and the path followed to access the website. It updates each time the website is visited.

Youtube cookiesCOOKIE DURATION PURPOSEGPS 1 day It registers a unique identification to allow tracking according to geographical location by GPS.PREF 8 months It records a unique ID that Google uses to keep statistics on how the visitor uses YouTube videos on different websites.VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 179 days It tries to calculate the user's bandwidth on websites with integrated YouTube videos.YSC Session It registers a unique identification to keep statistics of what YouTube videos the user has seen.

How can cookies use be deactivated?

Cookies use can be deactivated, modifying the browser settings. As a general rule, this action is usually found in the "Tools" or "Preferences" menu. Thus, it is possible to stop accepting browser cookies, or stop accepting cookies from a specific service.

Through the browser's help area, the user can learn about the different options for the cookies management:Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-XL/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-weApple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

The use of analytical cookies used by Google Analytics can also be excluded through the exclusion systems provided by Google, from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

As for the use of social media cookies, this can be deactivated by closing session in the corresponding social network before visiting the the Calvià Town Hall's website. In any case, the user must know that the cookies deactivation may hinder or prevent access to certain sections of the Calvià Town Hall's website, or may degrade browsing experience.